The White House moves to reinforce school prayer protections and announces other rule changes that could allow religious groups to mix religious activities with federally funded activities.
. While playing to his base, Trump’s rules are concerning to LGBTQ groups, which see them as possibly giving religious groups license to discriminate.
The rules are primarily aimed at forcing states to get rid of prohibitions against awarding grant money to religious groups. But they were required to separate those programs from churches’ religious activities in an effort to uphold the constitutional separation of church and state. Those requirements remain but the Trump administration has tried to weaken their enforcement in states or through federal agencies that distribute grant money.
Trump on Thursday blamed what he called “a growing totalitarian impulse on the far left that seeks to punish restrict and even prohibit religious expression.” But the administration has generally sided with religious groups in cases involving anti-discrimination laws. And opponents of the new rules point out that many communities lack options for social services that are not church-run.
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